Kathe Kollwitz Quotes

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

It's kind of good to do things while you're young.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.

You can't do an awful lot about getting older but you shouldn't let it stop you from doing what you want to do.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.